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Category: CALD scientific aspects

scientific aspects of CALD

CALD scientific aspects / Documents: Archives and Collections / Editorials

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A chrono-spatial survey of Arabic legal documents in CALD

Historians love sources and base their studies on them. Historians of Islamic societies are probably no exception. Historical studies are always limited in time and space, something that also applies to “world history studies”. The documents in the CALD database are a first step towards creating a corpus of sources for the study of the practice of Muslim courts, spanning the 8th to 16th centuries from Central Asia to the Iberian Peninsula. This wide dispersion of legal documents, (more…)

CALD discussions on typology / Islamic Law in Granada (15th c.)

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Conquerors validating Arabic legal documents in Granada

Only two items in CALD bear the typology 49933 as they derive from a very specific legal procedure that only took place in Granada after the Conquest in 1492 by the Castilian authorities using Arabic. This two items were preserved in the collection of Arabic documents in the Archivo Municipal de Granada. The structure of both items is clearly that of a question on the validity of the Arabic text written down in the recto of the paper, dated in Rabī‘ II 904/August 1499.

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